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I’ve been Pollan-ated… | Eric Garza

November 4, 2014

I’ve been Pollan-ated… | Eric Garza.

Each year the University of Vermont chooses a book that all first year undergraduates are expected to read. This year they chose Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, by Michael Pollan, a book I reviewed a while back. If Michael Pollan is anything, he’s certainly an excellent storyteller. As part of the curricula associated with Cooked, several groups teamed up to bring Michael Pollan to campus for a question and answer session and book signing this past Thursday evening, and I was lucky enough to attend the event. 

The questions asked of Pollan were grouped broadly in three categories, the first of which centered around the author’s process of writingCooked.  The second group centered around a central theme of Pollan’s writing, humanity’s relationship with nature. Although I’ve read a few of Pollan’s books I hadn’t caught this as a central theme, but in hindsight it makes perfect sense. Food remains, for many people, their last remaining connection to that abstract, distant thing called ‘nature’. Eating represents the process by which we take nature, which is ‘out there’, and turn it into us. The precise methods with which we do this define us, as individuals and as a species.

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These Two People Want to Change the World Through Cooking and Food Choices | Food Tank

October 29, 2014

These Two People Want to Change the World Through Cooking and Food Choices | Food Tank.

When Adam Aronovitz and Alissa Bilfield set out to travel the world and serve others, they could not find a volunteer opportunity that fit their need. Frustrated by administrative obstacles and too much emphasis on volunteers’ personal experience, they decided to develop a food literacy curriculum they could share anywhere in the world. Ultimately Aronovitz and Bilfield went on to create the Cookbook Project to address the root causes of the global public health epidemic of chronic disease as well as environmental issues.

They saw cooking and food choice as a solution and developed an experiential education model to engage youth. The project now helps people connect to food by participating in workshops, training to serve as local leaders, and experiencing cultural exchange. It reacquaints people with local foods and cooking methods and to promotes understanding of the role that food plays in health, the local community, and our global environment. In this interview, the founders discuss the goals of the organization, the curriculum, and several of the projects being conducted across the globe.

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